palmleaf

What is burning is "a corinthian column that held up a palmleaf roof of a nutburger stand."

Funny as a Crutch Hardwick, Elizabeth 2003

It was a very poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palmleaf, winding all over a steep hillside.

Shooting an Elephant 2002

We'll wear long, gray frocks, get bald-headed wigs and carry palmleaf fans.

Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman Pauline Lester

It was a very poor quarter, a labyrinth of squalid bamboo huts, thatched with palmleaf, winding all over a steep hillside.

Shooting an Elephant 1936

Andrews, who was stout, was sitting in his chair with his coat and vest off, vigorously wielding a palmleaf fan.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

A tall dark man, wearing an ancient palmleaf hat, sat smoking on the hatch coaming, and him Neils Halvorsen addressed.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palmleaf, gleamed eyes which, even in good-nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity.

XXI. The New England Holiday 1917

Looking down its dusty length from beneath the shelter of his palmleaf fan, Judge Priest saw here and there groups of children -- the little girls in prim and starchy white, the little boys hobbling in the Sunday torment of shoes and stockings; and all of them were moving toward a common center -- Sunday school.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

Presently, a coconut, hurled from its stem in the Bahamas or in Cuba, by a hurricane, set its palmleaf sail-sprout and was gale-driven across the intervening seas, floating ashore on the new-risen land.

Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

We had palmleaf fans offered us, pop-corn, and pink lemonade.

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902